{
"title": "Art and Culture in the Development Period to Modernization in the Reign of King Rama VI",
"authors": "Weena Eiamprapai",
"country": "Thailand",
"institution": "Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University",
"volume": "92",
"journal": "International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering",
"pagesStart": 2797,
"pagesEnd": 2801,
"ISSN": "1307-6892",
"URL": "http:\/\/waset.org\/publications\/10003717",
"abstract": "The growth of Thai society in western style in the\r\nmiddle of Rattanakosin period can be defined as modernization\r\n\/civilization. These terms had an influence on the development of the\r\ncountry in the reign of King Rama V owing to the governance\r\nreform, and cultures influenced by the West. Those were passed on\r\nuntil the reign of King Rama VI. The preference was not only for the\r\nrenovation of architecture and arts based on Thai customs reflecting\r\nthe prosperity and beauty of handicrafts but also for the acceptance of\r\nwesternization. The remain of this acceptance includes the concept of\r\nsuch value as gentlemanly behavior like that in Victorian Era of the\r\nUnited Kingdom, and the support of women’s status. Moreover, the\r\nwide spread of modernization leads to the movement to change the\r\ncountry’s governance system from absolute monarchy to democracy\r\nby a group of people called Rattanakosin Era (R.E.) 130 party.",
"references": null,
"publisher": "World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology",
"index": "International Science Index 92, 2014"
}